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Is made of. took on added grandeuryesterday by mounting in retail price to f 3.t3 5 from $3.35,Ten-pound sacks of various meals, with wheat or other grains u their baais, made a general advance of approximately 10 per cent yesterday, ail duo to $3 wheat.Farina is now 95 cents, cracked | wheat ©5 cents. graham flour !*** cents, rye flour SO cent!?, rye meal SO cents, buckwheat 76 cents, hominy oil cents, rolled oats 75 cents, corn I meaj 60 cents. Crown and pastry flour 1C' cents, w hole* wheat S5 c- nt•, oaf meal 7 5 cents and wheat hearts £5 cents.7 Cream of Wheat advanced from $7.20 - l« $9.35 per case, consisting of three dozen packages,1 Cleanliness Is more expensive now'I than heretofore, and the Saturday bath night may bo made bl-%v*-ekjy with-clout reproach soon. Various familiar j soaps aviated yesterday from 17- cents I to $1.76 a case to new high records.| Ureases and fats needed for making lexplorlve?* and war munitions is the cause assigned for this added coat toI the consumer.It will al#o be more costly to cook „ one*® food after the raw materials are purchased, if the expected advance In fuel prices develops. Slab wood Is the , next need of the household that la going higher, f Portland companies plan advanced rates for slab in various lengths and quantities and the new prlc«'« arc pi-j pected to be applied at any time now. Reasons for the change in fuel quotations are the labor shortage and high wages. Fuel companies say th* tr men must have mom money in, order to live and that the coat of the product ■ must, neceasarlly, be advanced to meetthis demand, j With soap prices higher and an extra• burden laid upon the bath* it will only t be a quest ton of a little while until* one can, with good grace, forego the• I have ns well aH the bath, for It t*« IiU-dy to cost morti for a n* v. r• then ev?r before♦ 1 Bosh barbers last Friday night agreedto charge 25 cents for a hair cut In-T -tend of the former quarter, and a!* thQ next meeting, May 5*, it is * \ -* peeled the cost of -haves wlU hr raised4 from 15 to 20 cents.__♦ _ . _ ---OFCORATION DAT mOORAHUi: UK190 MADE DP.l ed Gilbert Will Try to Nmaah 24-floor Motorcycle Ilrcord as Preliminary to Big lUec Meet.Motorcycle racer# from all over the Northwest. at least 60 In number, will participate In til*5 eighth annual motorcycle races at the Hose City Speedway Decoration day, Ma 30. Already 4 local drivers have entered, with Seattle, Spokane. Tacoma. Salem uud other points to bo heard from.Tiie day prior to the races Ted Gilbert. a Portiand- boy. will attempt to break the -4-hour endurance record established by Alan Be Dell nt I^os Angeles March ST. 1-+17. Gilbert will com-mnmp* hi* run at 12 o’clock (noorn May 29. finishing at 12 o'clock (noon) May 20, two Rours before the race* start. This will give Ume for the preliminarywork of the speeders.The track win be marked off with Gilbert sticking to the outride, thus making each lap a mile and one-sixteenth. Four huge flashlight* will allow spectator# to watch him all night. Admission to the track fo see Gilbert will b# free, announce# the management. Alan Ba Dali established the 24-hour record at Lo? Angeles b going 1153 S miles, an average of about 48 miles an hour. lie Deli rode a 1917 1 ♦i-horsepow-r I far! ey-Davidson *io- k machine. Gilbert will ride the same make.A permit for the motorcycle races and for Ted Gilbert's rid# hi# been issued by the National Motorcycle Racing Association through Northwest Representative Mark**, of Port ard An all the money taken In at the gate goes to theriders, every motorcycle house in Fortin rid Its behind t iits meet. All independent riders hivo united with them and will make an endeavor i » build up the Decoration day programme into the best one ever held.There will be many different kinds of races. The complete programme willFISH WASTE IS PROTESTEDRule Against Taking Small Sturgeon Declsred Objectionable,John Bryant, for more than 3 7 yearsbe announced within a faw day# Because all of the ry.otorcycle firms are behind the movement, the rivalry fn previous msgts will be Increased tenfold.
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Portland Sunday Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Sun, May 13, 1917
Page 3
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